Mythology

Yours truly is praising your perfection, Ptah the great, South of His Wall; Ta-tenen in the midst of Memphis. Noble god of the first occasion, who built people and gave birth to the gods, original one who made it possible…Read more

The origins of a hymn to Ptah date to the Nineteenth Dynasty (1307-1196 BCE) at Memphis. One version, copied on a slab of black granite known as the Shabaka Stela, was recovered by British archaeologists in Egypt in the 1830s….Read more

Ptah was a creator deity who made the world with his heart and his tongue. As Ptah “South of His Wall” he was the chief god of the Egyptian capital, Memphis. He was usually shown as a bearded man wearing…Read more

The Hermopolitan myths represented several different, non-contradictory versions of creation, which were primarily concerned with emphasizing the importance of the city. Unlike other cosmogonies, creation at Hermopolis was not restricted to one supreme god. Indeed, the main myth centered around…Read more